Holiday Inn Express Vancouver-Airport, Bc Richmond

... Come on... you try! What's the capital? How does the accent differ? What does the money look like? We do know that they're very good at those Winter Olympics sports, like... you know... skiing and that strange sport with the big round thing on the ice. Perhaps the reason Canada hasn't become a world superpower is because stuff is written in two languages, English and French and often announcements are in both languages as well. It takes twenty minutes ...

... squirrels and Spring flowers. It's a lovely park (1000 acres) and very well used with lots of visitors, roller blading, biking, jogging and strolling. We continued walking back across town to the English Bay side and along to the Granville Street bridge which we crossed to see the magnificent views of the city. We stopped at the Granville Island Markets (pretty disappointing) before heading back to the hotel.

... loved it - the history and the view of the Bay are worth it all!! I then met up with some friends from Pisco and we roamed around together, checking out some of the local bars, and (not surprisingly!!) eating more delicious food!! Haha. We found this incredible little Hawaiian-style café off the main drag called "Pacific Catch" where the combination of fresh fish, sushi-style sides, and amazing sauces had us drooling for ...

... system a lot today, so we wanted to get our money's worth. We took the #2 MacDonald bus down across the Burrard Street bridge and into Vanier Park. We got off the bus and had about a 7 block walk to the museum. The museum actually surprised the both of us; it was rather large and had some really great exhibits. It started out with the "Unnatural History of Stanley Park". This exhibit in particular was interesting to ...

... looking forward to seeing Zach and Holly so we thought we should go there a bit earlier than planned. We had a shower, a cup of tea and spent the afternoon chatting until Craig got home from work. We had a BBQ all together but then Craig had to go out as he was going to a concert. We relaxed for the rest of the evening and Steve did some e-mailing etc.

... Vancouver and the Capolano Suspension Bridge and park. The bridge is 140m long and 70m high. It can support over 1300 people! We learned about the pioneer history of the area, took pictures with the totem poles, spoke with Aboriginal artists and then walked across the bridge. Capolano Canyon has a small brook running through it. At the other side, gigantic Douglas firs tower overhead. We walked between tree platforms on ...

... pasta with veal sauce. Dessert was good ole chocolate ice cream. The couple from Illinois were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary so Ramon sang Elvis Presley's "Can't help falling in love with you" along with some Elvis hip moves! Woo hoo! After dinner, we decided it would be a good time for the hot tub. There was only one other person in the 2nd one and it felt so good on our backs and feet. I was excited about tomorrow as our 1st port of call would be Ketchikan.

Chris here -- It's now Thursday morning, the beginning of our second full day in Vancouver. I thought I'd try out some of our communications technology, so I am writing this by typing a memo into the Palm using the wireless keyboard that came with it. I can see that it will take a little time to get use dto the keyboard size, but it's certainly much faster than writing on the Palm using the stylus. (We couldn't figure out how ...

... at 7: 45 PM, just in time to catch the sunset. We then chatted for a few hours and rode the gondola back to the bottom. The next morning, we woke up and once again met Michael for a trail run through Stanley Park. We then took the ferry to Grandville Island, where we toured the sites and then sat down for lunch outside the public ...

MODERN life is full of desirable but impossible tasks: plugging the hole in the ozone lay**, convincing the Rolling Stones it would be prudent to retire....and getting Scott Brown out of bed in time for, well, anything. My mission impossible that day, should I choose to accept it, was to get Scottie up and running for our Vancouv** jaunt. This is the man who sets his own schedule and laughs in the face of those pesky necessities used by us regular plebs such as alarm clocks ...